different between oryx vs ibex

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (órux, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”).

Noun

oryx (plural oryxes or oryx or (rare) oryges)

1. Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns

Related terms

• orygine

Synonyms

• sabre antelope

Translations

Anagrams

• Roxy

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (órux), the antelope probably being named after the sharp iron digging tools with the same name, because of the shape of its horns.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.ryks/, [????ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.riks/, [????iks]

Noun

oryx m (genitive orygis); third declension

1. antelope, gazelle
2. wild goat
3. wild bull or ox

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• oryx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oryx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oryx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• oryx in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• oryx in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

English

Etymology

From Latin ?bex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?b?ks/

Noun

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.

Translations

Anagrams

• Xibe, exbi-

Latin

Etymology

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps, as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)eb?- (“climbing”).

Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i?.beks/, [?i?b?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.beks/, [?i?b?ks]

Noun

?bex m (genitive ?bicis); third declension

1. chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• (Late Latin) hybicum

Descendants

• Asturian: robizu, rebezu
• English: ibex
• Galician: rebezo
• Romanian: ibex
• Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo

References

• ibex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ibex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

ibex m (plural ibex)

1. ibex